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That last sentence holds a lot of truth.

Our company has drastically downsized its dependence on Atlassian in the past month, we will be completely free in a few more. With the help of modern AI tools we've been able to replace their products with internal tools that are better tailored to our needs.

There could be a few benefits to what is proposed in the article, here are my semi-educated guesses.

1. Less dependent on local geology. Geothermal wells are well suited for hot, non-pourous (?) geology.

2. Might be cheaper. It can take years to drill the wells for a closed loop system (e.g. Eavor), less for a fracked geothermal well (e.g. Fervo). I imagine drilling a single borehole for this is way simpler.

3. Less water loss. Fracked geothermal well wells can be pretty lossy (20%?). If water supply is an issue your options may be limited.

Has anyone tried a controller for cooling that is dependent on processor current consumption? Temperature measurements lag, but the current used by the processor is instantaneous and directly converted to heat (P = VI). In theory, it should be possible to reduce temperature spikes.

A Kalman filter will give you the "best guess" for some state (x) at the current timestep (k). This estimate often has some lag in it, likely because you have some incomplete information that you couldn't model. Sometimes we care about the previous states (e.g., x_k-1). But if we just save these states and refer to them, we're not getting the most out of our data.

The Kalman Smoother can be used to go back and update these past values with all the samples up to the current time. To update your previous measurements, you need to save the state of your filter at every timestep (x_k) and its associated covariance matrix (P_k). You can then apply Kalman Smoothing to reprocess previous data and update it with all current information. This will often remove the phase delay that you would otherwise observe in your estimate.

We develop navigation instrumentation for directional drilling (oil/gas, geothermal, etc.). In these applications you have to estimate the path of the drilling string based on directional measurements and the length of drill pipe you've put into the ground. To take good measurements you have to stop so that rotation and vibration don't corrupt your measurement.

We use a type of Kalman Filter to estimate direction and instantaneous dynamics of the drill string, this way the drilling operation no longer needs to stop to get a directional measurement.

No, it doesn't appear so. It seems the bristles do wear out somehow, to me it appears that they simply become less stiff over time. The change to a new brush head is noticeable.

This should be relatively easy to verify. One could take a new brush head and forward its counter to the limit, directly comparing it to a new unmodified brush.

"Upton is confident that in less than a year, Raspberry Pi stock levels should return to pre-pandemic levels."

We've long since pivoted away from dependence on Raspberry Pis and back to designing our own custom boards with more available parts.

This may not be such a good choice.

If you turn the ignition all the way off (instead of just the engine) the steering lock may engage. Additionally you will also lose power steering and the brake assist. I guess the latter doesn't matter much in this scenario, but the steering lock could result in a really bad time.

Large mouse pads.

Growing up playing first person shooters has wired my mind to a degree that it's difficult to overcome the muscle memory. This makes mouse acceleration terribly frustrating. Fortunately, using a track pad with mouse acceleration doesn't use the same muscles and is much more bearable (if slower) to use.

Considering what an average (casual) climber can achieve in a lifetime the hardest moves on the route would be very difficult but doable. But the route as a whole is probably out of reach, it requires a tremendous amount of endurance.

For a dedicated sport climber the route would be very difficult but doable.